1928–2014
Biography · Literature
Claude McKay
1889–1948
Jamaica / United States
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Born in Jamaica, McKay became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, whose poem 'If We Must Die' and novel Home to Harlem shaped Black literary modernism.
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1924–1987
1913–2008